What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Miss Scaredy-Cat feels puny, lonely and worthless, and shares with us her fears and joys in affairs of the heart. Miss Remarkable knows that to make the grade you must get to be something grand like a nuclear physicist, a film director or a Manhattan designer. Joanna Rubin Drangers cartoon novels and childrens books have been acclaimed by readers and critics alike, and translated into any number of languages. In addition to cartoon novels and short stories, Joanna Rubin Dranger has created picture narratives in other guises in poster form, on postage stamps and now on film. This book about the art of Joanna Rubin Dranger introduces her pictures, pictorial narratives and writings. Journalist Lawen Mohtadi, actress Anna Pettersson and theatre directors Suzanne Osten and Farnaz Arbabi, are among those describing in this book how Joanna Rubin Drangers stories have inspired them.